This Friday March 3, 2017 Tortuga is a virtual art playground. 17 Living Artifacts will be on hand for viewing and exploring. The walls are filled with the beautiful and diverse art of the Luna Project women.

The Living Artifact Project includes a workshop this Saturday March 4th. If you are interested in creating your own Living Artifact, check out the tab on this page and register to experience it first hand.

This Wednesday, February 22 starting at 6pm, Tortuga along with good friend Selena Bequette will be hosting a "No Plastic Potluck". At Tortuga events, we encourage the practice of washing dishes instead of using plastic once and then throwing it away. We never have bottled water, preferring instead to drink filtered water (which is on tap in the kitchen area.) So this will be a gathering to explore and celebrate how to live in this plastic world and make conscious choices regarding packaging.

Special gift for all attendees.

Looking ahead-

Check out the tab, "Living Artifact Project 2017" for details about this featured event of the Women & Creativity series.

Game night- tonight- Third Thursday starting around 5:30pm. Open to all: bring a snack and a friend maybe an instrument as well. Music sometimes spontaneously erupts!

This Saturday is "Artful Saturday" as hosted by ARTScrawl. From 2-4 at Tortuga all are invited to view the Turtle Show and enjoy the sounds of Los Unusual Suspects. Then stick around until 5pm for the premier viewing of John Bolenbaugh's documentary, "Stop All New Pipelines".

The Turtle Show continues until Friday February 24 with a celebration that includes music of Fair Trade Fusion. Tortuga is the place with the most art and music- all to uplift the soul.

Thank you everyone who made Tortuga part of your First Friday. It was great to see everyone! The art car that showed up thanks to Mary DuBois was fantastic! Thank you Ken for showing up and sharing your work!

Tortuga will be open Wednesdays and Fridays for the rest of the month from 1-5pm.

Next event during the Turtle Show is a Planned Parenthood fundraiser on February 11 from 10am until 1pm.

After that, it's the monthly game night on February 16 starting at 5:30. All are invited!

In winter, turtles usually take a break and do some hibernating and so Tortuga will do a bit of this, coming out occasionally to check the forecast.

Here is what will be happening in December and January:

Game nights will happen on the third Thursday- that is December 15 and January 19 starting at 5:30pm.

There is a 'Call for Art' happening right now. From now until January 8, we invite all artists to submit work for the first "Turtle Show" which will be on view during February 2017. See the Turtle Show tab for more details.

Turtle Show will open with a variety of artists on February 3, 2017. There will be no regular hours until then, so stay warm and hug your loves.

Jill & Pax

An addition to the January schedule is a benefit for the Women's March on Washington, NM. There will be an art auction, food, music and community gathering in support of the women traveling to Washington DC. See the EVENT tab for more info.

Winter has come, and water protectors need more support than ever. Come celebrate all the things we are fighting for with music, spoken word, and poetry. All donations go to water protectors at Standing Rock.

Cali Bee purrforms queer-radical-roustabout music and spoken word! With her ukulele, foot tambourine, moose puppet, and a whole slew of words, Cali jiggles loose the joints of the capitalist heteropatriarchy and out pops joy and a moment to practice liberation. She recently returned from the frontlines in North Dakota.

Check out the event page for the whole listing, but suffice to say that with the opening act of Qais Essar / Qais and the Qosmonauts and the visual addition of local artist Sparrow, this is an evening not to miss.

This Monday, October 31, Tortuga will be open starting at noon to prepare for the evening festivities. Come check out Santiago's unique installation of cut-outs and get your costume ready for the contest. The lucky winner will receive "Carrot Top". One night art raffle, for a Buddha cut-out and just lots of fun.

Put Tortuga on your list of places to stop by this Halloween. Dirty Deluxe Dance Band will perform, no cover.

3pm Mural Unveiling with Santiago Perez. Witness the new mural, "Terrapin Station" and stick around for the artist talk.

7pm Later that same day is BAD MOUTH, a new series dedicated to bringing really great literary art and music to Burque. Created and curated by poets Rebecca Aronson and Erin Adair-Hodges, BAD MOUTH seeks to foster a space for exciting and inventive fiction, nonfiction, poetry and music to come together. $5-20 donation.

Mergatroidnica- A Show of Cut-Outs by Santiago Perez is arriving at Tortuga. As the images slide up the walls to find their preferred place, the gallery is being transformed. This Friday October 7, 2016 starting at 6pm, you may begin the search for the cut-out that most closely resembles yourself or a friend or a future friend.

Take a close look and prepare for October 31 and the contest for the costume that comes closest to one of Santiago's characters.

Coming down from a weekend of music and community, I am reflecting on why we do what we do at Tortuga. At Globalquerque on Friday night, I experienced community, diverse music and danced more than I had in a long time. Saturday we headed off to Unify Fest at Las Golondrinas for two days of music containing a message of hope and challenge for the issues facing our world. Sunday evening we were blessed and blissed to host YAIMA, coming from Unify before they headed back home to Seattle. What a delightful way to end this weekend!

While at Unify, I noticed that people (even if they do not know one another) greet each other with a smile and a hug or kiss. There were smiles everywhere! I hope to bring this to daily living and want to live like I'm at a festival.

If you missed Unify, you can still connect with the spirit of the festival this Friday as we host the Chad Wilkins band. An uplifting night of songs from the heart is in store. Hope to see you here!

Each year, the students at Cochiti Elementary honor the 21st of September as 'Peace One Day' with music and dance from cultures around the world. We start the day with a gathering in our Peace Garden and listen to words of students and sing together before presenting our learning during our self proclaimed'multi-cultural day'. Tortuga has often held Peace Once Day events as well. This year, we want to extend an open invitation to all of our Tortuga community to join us as we share a potluck and take an opportunity to view the festivities of Peace One Day together. Please come and share a dish and enjoy the space.

The last official day to view the works of Denise Weaver Ross and Eliza M Schmid is Friday September 2, 2016. Enjoy a last look at monsters A-Z, experience jams with Kevin Kinane and friends and unwind for the weekend.